Word: hat
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Electoral College. Naturally, Tammany, the local Democratic organization, wanted Smith to run, to strengthen their local ticket which they feared might go down in a national Republican landslide. But Smith did not want to run. That was natural because he had the Presidential bee in his derby hat. He had nothing to gain by running this year, when he might be defeated as he was in 1920; although even in that Republican year he ran far ahead of his ticket. He could afford to retire in 1924, without risking a defeat, and take his chances of being elected again...
...when, responding to the cheers, he lightly doffed his hat...
...Edouard, his shoes squeaking under the weight of his corpulence. Great crowds assembled. The Premier smiled. Great crowds followed. The Premier was delighted. Many times he stopped, shook hands, conversed, kissed, parted with common people and sailors. Many times the people cheered; and many times the Premier raised his hat. Then, from a side alley, was heard a noise like the trumpetings of mad elephants. Two hundred Communists, armed to the eyebrows with sticks, swooped upon the Premier, uttering the terrible cry of "Amnestie!"* M. Herriot turned pale. The Communists surrounded him, waved their sticks, "threatened" him. Several times...
Arlen's life is semidetached, like his characters in These Charming People and The Green Hat. He has a gesture of romance, even in the accident of birth. Is it not strange that so many foreigners bring to the English lan- guage a style that, while thoroughly English, has a touch of color in world-grouping that makes it richer than much purely native writing? Arlen was born on the Danube and moved to England when he was quite young. He went to school fitfully, was educated partly in Switzerland, came back to London and was exceedingly gay. He danced...
...Citizen Genet was rebuked; the country expanded westward; John Adams was elected President; Jefferson, with his large affectation of the homespun, became a power in the land. By degrees Bale became concious that he, always a staunch Federalist, was owning loyalty to a party discredited. He affixed to his hat the black cockade of his ances tors, and broke his riding-whip over the head of any man who looked askance at it. There were times when, whatever he might fee doing, the memory of Lavinia, vagrant and unsummoned, would bring about him the sense of invisible flowers chilled under...